Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The remnants of Isaias moving towards Pennsylvania 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is cool- New York City’s biggest battery storage project to date just broke ground in East New York, brooklyneagle.com/421685/nycs-...brooklyneagle.comNYC’s largest battery storage project so far breaks ground in East New YorkONE OF THE LARGEST energy storage developments to date in New York City broke ground on Sept. 28 at 172 Williams Ave. in East New York. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is cool- A 1,700-ton machine has begun carving the first new Hudson River rail tunnel in more than a century. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/28/g...thecityreporter.nycIt’s a Grind: Gateway Project Pushes Through With Tunnel Boring MilestoneThe transit megaproject had ground to a halt earlier this year following the Trump administration yanking funding. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I like this- Affordable housing projects are getting a fast lane in some of NYC’s lowest-producing neighborhoods. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/01/a...thecityreporter.nycThe 12 Neighborhoods the Mamdani Administration Is Targeting for More Affordable HousingThe city Planning Department’s new list of districts with weak records on housing includes the Upper East Side and several neighborhoods in Queens and Staten Island. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm still not buying it- OpenAI disclosed Wednesday that agents built on its platform may have conducted unauthorized intrusions or caused harm across more than 100 organizations, each of which has been notified directly. qz.com/openai-rogue...qz.comOpenAI rogue AI agents affected more than 100 organizationsThe disclosure expands the known scope of unauthorized model activity as OpenAI searches through roughly 50 petabytes of data 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is impressive, NY- New data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis found that New York’s GDP grew 4% from the first quarter to the second — the fastest growth of any state and nearly double the national rate. bronx.news12.com/2026/10/01/n...bronx.news12.comNew York had fastest-growing economy in nation last quarterThe BEA says the New York’s GDP grew 4% from the first quarter to the second, which is the highest of any state and nearly double the national growth rate. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's hard to believe this is happening in today's age- New York is moving fast to contain a growing measles outbreak. Thanks anti-vaxxers www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comNew York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles OutbreakNew York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in response to rising measles cases on Monday, as infections skyrocket nationwide. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think this is a good idea- Meta, Walmart, Stripe, and enterprise AI startup Sierra are publishing an open standard called the "personal agent protocol," designed to govern how AI agents interact with businesses online. tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/a...tech.yahoo.comMeta, Walmart, Stripe launch open standard for AI agentsThe personal agent protocol aims to let businesses verify whether they're dealing with an AI bot or a human customer 100
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lower Manhattan’s office-to-housing makeover is getting even bigger. The city plans to replace the city-owned government building at 100 Gold Streetwith nearly 4,000 apartments. www.6sqft.com/city-expands...6sqft.comCity expands 100 Gold Street redevelopment to nearly 4,000 new homesA project that converts an office building at 100 Gold Street into housing will now have 4,000 apartments, an increase of about 300 units from the original plan, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tues... 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think it’s time we start calling bs on some of these claims- tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...tech.yahoo.comOpenAI, Anthropic Investigate Tens Of Thousands Of AI Incidents As Frontier Models Bypass Guardrails: ReportAccording to an Axios report, the incidents span both internal testing and real-world environments, with some involving attempts to bypass safeguards or operate beyond the boundaries set by developers... 010
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is good news in the short term, for sure. But what happens when the bubble bursts? AI is giving NYC’s office market another boost: Inspiren and Normal Computing each signed leases bringing the Flatiron building to 100% occupancy. www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...crainsnewyork.com 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hmmm- Anthropic and OpenAI have both released cheaper AI models on the same day, after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to call for an industrywide slowdown earlier this month. Mixed signals anyone? 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is pretty cool- NYC’s newest school buses have a side hustle: helping power the electric grid. www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...canarymedia.comA new fleet of electric school buses hits New York City streetsBus operator First Student and utility Con Edison are advancing a $9 million pilot that offers a cleaner commute for students and a power boost to the… 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is how far ai has come. Ready to trust your company’s reputation on it? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8TuWuRS/tiktok.comStop AI callers instantly! 🤖🚫 #memes #fyp #funny #ai #scamcallersTikTok video by SoundBoardLord 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I tend to also think this based on my experience with AI www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83o2kCv/tiktok.comSteve Eisman Says AI Companies Are Manufacturing a Crisis #SteveEisman #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AITech #BigShort #TechNews #AIHype #FutureOfAI #TechTikTokTikTok video by Alt Rock Archives 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026More moat digging mnews.sbs.co.kr/english/arti...mnews.sbs.co.krSBS 뉴스대한민국 뉴스의 기준, 중심을 지키는 저널리즘 SBS 뉴스 - 시청자의 눈높이에 맞는, 더욱 품격 있는 뉴스를 제공합니다. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Who else here thinks Open AI is just trying to dig a moat around its business? qz.com/openai-ai-mo...qz.comOpenAI discloses 6 AI model misalignment incidents, new frameworkThe company also unveiled a standardized system for tracking and publicly reporting future instances of model misbehavior 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026When you see managers make poor decisions based solely on what Claude tells them, it’s easy to see why this is happening. Critical thought is more important than ever. www.yahoo.com/finance/tech...yahoo.comMark Zuckerberg’s Meta bet that AI would shrink its management ranks. Now it’s quietly rebuilding themThe company that spent the past year telling managers to code is now asking some engineers in a key AI division whether they'd like to lead teams again. 010
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Nice job, Tampa! www.yahoo.com/finance/econ...yahoo.comTampa ranks among America’s top 5 boomtowns in new studyIt’s no secret that Tampa is changing rapidly. The city ranked No. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I see more and more of this happening- The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of scraping paywalled articles without permission to train ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and AI-powered Bing. mashable.com/tech/openai-...mashable.comLocal newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft over use of paywalled articlesThe Seattle Times and Newsday claim the developers fed paywalled articles to its models. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026More employers should consider this- NYC just added a pretty compelling employee perk: free child care. patch.com/new-york/dow...patch.comNYC Opens 1st Free Child Care Center For City Workers: See InsideThe new center called The Little Apple is located inside the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Quite the turnaround- States bankrolled the data center boom. Now they're trying to stop it qz.com/states-rolli...qz.comStates roll back AI data center tax breaks for Amazon, Meta, GoogleVoter anger over higher electricity bills and grid strain is pushing governors in Texas and Pennsylvania to halt or limit new data center projects 110
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Does this give you pause? Apple watch now listens 24/7 techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/a...techcrunch.comApple Watch's new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening | TechCrunchApple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave wh... 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026NYC’s crime numbers are moving in the right direction. Major crime fell roughly 6% in the first half of 2026, murders hit a historic midyear low, and shootings dropped below prepandemic levels. www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-crime-mi...vitalcitynyc.orgThe State of Crime in New York City, Midyear 2026: The Detailed PictureWhat to know about trends in murder, assault, rape and more 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026At under $10 per hour to operate, a humanoid robot undercuts the roughly $30 hourly cost of a warehouse worker by a significant margin. 110
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We saw what happened to Space X. Is this any more realistic? Anthropic is preparing to tell investors its total addressable market exceeds $30 trillion, surpassing SpaceX's $28.5 trillion estimate ahead of its planned IPO, according to a Wall Street Journal report. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What do you think of this? Bill Gates published a policy essay proposing two major interventions to slow AI-driven job displacement: a "robot tax" that would levy payroll-equivalent taxes on automation, and "Human Reserved" job categories where AI would be legally barred from certain tasks. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026OpenAI announced Monday that its ChatGPT advertising operation has crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate. The ad business is only 200 days old 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The cost of running AI models has fallen to record lows, with average inference prices hitting $1.16 to $1.18 per million tokens in early August 2026. That's a 43% drop from late May and roughly 12% of March 2023 pricing levels. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The amount of over-reliance on ai leading to colossal mistakes keeps increasing- tech.yahoo.com/ai/claude/ar...tech.yahoo.comClaude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to...Claude nuked a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn't happen, and it's possible that an automatic model downgrade likely contributed to the screw-up 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Anyone else skeptical about this? OpenAI called for expanded safety requirements under California's SB 53 law, reversing its prior opposition to state-level AI regulation. www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...asiae.co.krOpenAI Urges Stronger AI Regulations in California, Marking a Shift in Stance - The Asia Business DailyOpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, which has previously expressed a negative stance toward state-level artificial intelligence (AI) regulations, has no 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is a shame- Amazon is buying rare books and destroying them to train its AI models qz.com/amazon-rare-...qz.comAmazon destroying rare books to scan them for AI training dataA 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where workers cut spines off books to scan them 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Here’s something that should concern you- The world's battery boom depends on a supply chain that could snap at any time. qz.com/lithium-supp...qz.comLithium supply chain can't keep up with battery demandCheap batteries could lose their value proposition if mines can't produce the minerals they need. A shortage could upend whole industries 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026For the first time in CBRE’s 13-year ranking, New York has overtaken the Bay Area as North America's largest tech talent market. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/n...cnbc.comNew York unseats San Francisco as the top market for tech talent, CBRE reportsAI-related roles now account for nearly one-third of all tech-talent job listings in the U.S., per the new CBRE report. 001
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This isn't good- Data breaches are happening at record pace. AI is behind a lot of them qz.com/data-breach-...qz.comData breach notices surpass 2025 record as AI attacks riseMore than 471 million victim notices were issued in the first half of 2026, compared with 297.5 million for all of last year 010
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Is running your website getting more expensive? Blame AI 010
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I like this- Outdoor dining is poised to become a year-round affair again in NYC, with the City Council approving legislation today allowing roadway setups to stay put through the winter. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/n...nytimes.comOutdoor Dining Will Resume Year-Round in New York CityThe City Council approved a package of bills loosening some restrictions on roadway dining structures, which became ubiquitous during the pandemic. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Anthropic released new research showing what happens when multiple AI agents encounter each other on the same task. The findings reveal agents can quickly escalate into sabotage, self-replicating malware, and what researchers called a "multiagent turf war." techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/a...techcrunch.comAnthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunchAnthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems. 051
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I don’t know about for text, but I’m all for this with images and video- Anthropic is embedding machine-readable marks into text and images generated by Claude tech.yahoo.com/ai/claude/ar...tech.yahoo.comAnthropic adding watermarks to Claude AI-generated text and imagesThe AI company signed the E.U. AI Act's transparency code and says new Claude models will mark content from day one of release 020
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Through July, NYC recorded its fewest murders, shooting incidents, and shooting victims for the first seven months of any year on record. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...cbsnews.comNYPD touts removing 3,200+ guns off NYC streets so far this yearThe NYPD touted progress in its fight against illegal guns in New York City Tuesday, announcing that so far this year more than 3,000 guns have been seized so far this year. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The Perseid Meteor Shower peaks overnight, with up to 100 meteors per hour possible under ideal conditions. Are you going to be watching? www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/pers...nbcnewyork.comPerseid meteor shower peaks tonight: Where and how to see the most shooting starsThe best way to view the Perseids is away from any light pollution — so get out of the city to a sparsely populated location. Once you’ve found a dark spot, look north and you could see up to 100 mete... 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Whoa- Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model that outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Anthropic's Fable 5 on OSWorld-Verified. venturebeat.com/technology/q...venturebeat.comQwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer useAccording to the company, Qwen3.8-Max can autonomously complete software projects lasting more than 10 days, reproduce research papers involving thousands of lines of code... 010
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Hmmm- Anthropic is building an in-house team to design its own AI chips for Claude qz.com/anthropic-cu...qz.comAnthropic building in-house custom AI chip design team for ClaudeThe AI startup confirmed the move on Wednesday, saying it will hire engineers to co-design chips and models to run Claude faster and at greater scale 010
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Another coding agent? Meta released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent designed to handle complex software engineering tasks across large code bases. techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/m...techcrunch.comMeta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases | TechCrunchMeta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software. 010
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Federal Reserve officials are monitoring whether the explosive investment pace driving AI infrastructure buildout poses financial stability risks. What do you think? Are we in an AI bubble? finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...finance.yahoo.comFurious pace of AI investment on some Fed officials' radar nowBy Michael S. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026More than 2,000 decommissioned subway cars have been deliberately sunk off the East Coast, where they’ve become artificial reefs teeming with fish, mussels, and other marine life. www.bgr.com/2228675/old-...bgr.comOld NYC Subway Cars Have An Unexpected Second Life On The Ocean Floor - BGRWhen a New York City subway car reaches the end of its service life, it doesn't necessarily go to a farm upstate, it might be turned into a reef. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026How many of you also find it funny that employees are using AI to write long emails and documents, then other employees in the same company use AI to summarize the documents? 001
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Does an AI kill switch make sense? A bipartisan House bill would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain reliable shutdown controls metapress.net/technology/2...metapress.netAI kill switch bill could shut down rogue modelsNEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The phrase "AI kill switch" sounds like a red button hidden behind glass in a government bunker. The proposal now before Congress looks less dramatic, but... 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Way to go NYC- The first seven months of 2026 saw the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded city history, while overall major crime fell 12.7% in July. www.amny.com/new-york/202...amny.com2026 sees record low shootings and murders, NYPD saysThe NYPD says that both the first seven months of the year and July itself have seen the fewest shootings and murders in recorded history. 000
Chris Pflum @chrispflum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This is very dangerous- AI chatbots create a feedback loop that can deepen mental illness. qz.com/chatbot-ampl...qz.comHow chatbot amplification spirals deepen emotional dependenceChatbots agree with users, mirror their mood, and remember what they share. People in crisis get no pushback from a machine built only to validate 000